Mate 16.04 not kicking in after install on ubuntu 16.04

Johan Scheepers johansche at telkomsa.net
Mon Sep 12 09:11:26 UTC 2016


On 12/09/2016 10:59, Colin Law wrote:
> On 12 September 2016 at 09:45, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> I thought that this should work.
>> To upgrade to the latest MATE Desktop 1.14.x in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 using the
>> official Xenial MATE PPA, open a terminal and use the following commands:
>>
>> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/xenial-mate
>> sudo apt update
>> sudo apt dist-upgrade
> I would have expected that to work, assuming that you had installed
> Ubuntu Mate rather than just Ubuntu.
>
> Colin
>
What would you suggest to do if you want ubuntu-gnome and mate on top of 
it to have a choice when logging in. I have no problem to re-install. 
Pensioner - lots of  time and data on fast-dsl.

Thanks Johan





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